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The body of former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, was transferred out of Singapore on Wednesday after his death last week, his nephew said, going home to be buried in a country divided by the legacy of the hero turned despot.<\/p>\n
Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who came to power after Zimbabwe's independence from Britain and ruled for 37 years until he was overthrown in 2017, died Friday at age 95.<\/p>\n
His health deteriorated after he was overthrown by the military and former loyalists in November 2017, ending an increasingly fierce rule that ruined the economy.<\/p>\n
He died after receiving treatment at a hospital in Singapore for several months, and a delegation, including Vice President Kembo Mohadi, traveled to the wealthy city-state on a chartered flight to take him home.<\/p>\n
Early Wednesday morning, a hearse carrying Mugabe's body left a funeral home in Singapore bound for an airport and accompanied by a police escort, passing by a group of waiting journalists.<\/p>\n
A plane carrying the former leader and the visiting delegation departed shortly afterwards, said his nephew Adam Molai. AFP<\/em><\/p>\n "He just left now," he said by phone from the plane when he took off, with the noise of the audible plane in the background.<\/p>\n The Zimbabwean delegation arrived on Tuesday and attended a private Catholic mass for Mugabe at the funeral home, officiated by a Zimbabwean priest.<\/p>\n Zimbabweans have divided on how to mourn a former leader who was once hailed as a liberation hero, but then brutally repressed his opponents.<\/p>\n He was initially praised for ridding the former British colony Rhodesia of the white minority government, but then used repression and fear to rule until he was finally expelled.<\/p>\n His increasingly tyrannical leadership and economic mismanagement led millions of people to leave the country.<\/p>\n After his death, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that he had been declared a "national hero", the flags flew at half-mast through Harare and news of his death appeared on the front pages of the newspapers.<\/p>\n However, Harare residents seemed largely unconcerned, stores remained open and people made their daily errands.<\/p>\n Upon arrival in Zimbabwe, Mugabe's body will be taken directly to his village in Kutama, in the district of Zvimba, west of the capital, Harare, for a night of vigil.<\/p>\n On Thursday and Friday, the body will remain in state at the Rufaro stadium in the municipality of Mbare in Harare for the public to pay their final respects.<\/p>\n The 35,000-seat stadium is where Mugabe swore in a colorful ceremony when Rhodesia's colonial prime minister, Ian Smith, delivered the country.<\/p>\n There, Mugabe raised the new flag of Zimbabwe and lit the flame of independence on April 18, 1980, bringing hope for a new era after a long guerrilla war.<\/p>\n The official funeral will be held on Saturday at the gigantic 60,000-seat National Sports Stadium in Harare and foreign leaders are expected to attend.<\/p>\n He will be buried on Sunday, but the location remains unclear.<\/p>\n Mugabe's family and the Mnangagwa government apparently disagree about whether it would be on their farm northwest of Harare or in a sanctuary for liberation heroes in the capital.<\/p>\n A relative has said that, according to Shona's native customs, traditional Zvimba chiefs will have one last word about where the former leader will be buried.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1504578\/mugabes-body-heads-back-to-a-divided-zimbabwe-for-burial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The body of former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, was transferred out of Singapore on Wednesday after his death last week, his nephew said, going home to be buried in a country divided by the legacy of the hero turned despot. 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